McKinney v. De Bord’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.2d 501 · 1974
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Western Mining Council v. Watt (1981), Franklin v. Oregon (1981)
47 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Haines v. Kerner · Procunier v. Martinez · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · Costello v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in construing a complaint most favorably for the plaintiff, a court need not give a plaintiff the benefit of every conceivable doubt; rather, a court is required only to draw every reasonable or warranted factual inference in the plaintiff's favor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holden v. Hagopian“unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we should use common sense in interpreting the frequently diffuse pleadings of pro se complaints.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.